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Crowds of Steel or Burlap Bodies: The Disturbing Sculptures of Abakanowicz Daria Meoli In Coexistence. Magdalena Abakanowicz sheds a beautiful tear over gang mentality. This powerful and surprising exhibit marks yet another evolution for the rebellious Polish artist. Born to aristocratic parents in 1930 and raised on an estate east of Warsaw, Abakanowicz came of […]

A flirtation between art and film Danielle O’Steen Exhibited along the main streets, piazzas and major hotels on the Lido of Venice, OPEN2003 style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>, the sixth edition of the International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, style=’color:black’>ran in coordination with the Venice Film Festival from August 27th through October 5th this year. Boasting the theme Art […]

 A Song For Rudy Burckhardt and a Song of Fire: The Towers (9/11) David Shapiro Andso the snow fell Andcovered up poetry.   Andso the snow fell Andcovered up cities like bags of leaves.   “5WTC, II”, mixed media collage on paper mounted on canvas, 14″ x 10″, 1998.   Andso the snow fell Andcovered […]

Enter the Trans-Urban Laura Lee Pederson From a graffiti-mapped commute to a faux cigarette commercial, Brooklyn-based Turf’s fall 2003 film project, Film @ 33 incorporated 14 artists, 3 installations, and 17 screened projects arranged thematically in 4 segments. Each self-contained segment worked in much the same way as rooms in a group show. Stephen Apicella-Hitchcock, […]

The New Pluralism: Visual & Verbal Piri Halasz In the ’70s, people talked about "pluralism." A range of work was on view, but most fell into two categories. One was conceptual, video, performance and process art, and the other, hyperrealism. Hyperrealism sold well, but critics preferred conceptual-video-etc. It provided better opportunities for discussion, but was […]

An Interview with Michael Ray Charles Mireia Cirera Agitador de conciencias e ir�nico provocador por excelencia, Michael Ray Charles (Lafayette, EEUU, 1967) quebranta las reglas establecidas por la sociedad y lanza aut�nticas aut�nticas bombas a la humanidad, impregnadas de temas raciales.    (Forever free) Chocolate Beacons, installation of chocolate figures and pottery, 2002 La Cotthem […]

Poetic Realism in Las Vegas Daniel Rothbart Surrealism is not a foreign concept to Las Vegas. In the arc of a twenty minute stroll along the strip one encounters the most revelatory combination of environments from a circus big top to a circle of wagon trains to a pirate battle raging on a seaside inlet. […]

Dawn – On the Safety Curtain by Thomas Bayrle Daniel Birnbaum Thomas Bayrle consistently produces extremely large works and his Christ in the city installed temporarily on the Safety Curtain at the Vienna State Opera House is one of the largest. The elements of this picture are small, very small. The tension between two scales–the […]

An African Horseman Attacked by a Lion Selma Stern ‘An African HorsemanAttacked by a Lion’ for the first time attributed to Pietro Tacca A Aix… Un aveugle croit qu’il pleut Mais s’il pouvait voir dans sa canne Il verrait les fontaines bleues Chanter la gloire de C�zanne. (Jean Cocteau about a copy of Tacca’s Boar […]

Everyday and Everynight Simon Sheikh Everyday and Everynight: The articulation of the city in two works by Knut Asdam.   A keener awareness of everyday life will replace the myths of ‘thought’ and ‘sincerity’ — deliberate, proven ‘lies’ — with the richer, more complex idea of thought-action style=’font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana’>. Henri Lefebvre    Knut Asdam, still from […]